500 Bibliographical Notices. 



draspis australis, Chelodina ohlonga, Hyla bioceUata, H. Adelaidensls, 



Breviceps Heliogahali (called B. Gouldii in the text), Helioporus albo- 



guttatus. 



F. Notes on some Insects from King George's Sound, collected and 



presented to the British Museum by Capt. G. Grey, by A. White, 



Esq. 



This contains, 1st, a notice of previous publications on Australian 

 Insects ; 2nd, a list with detailed observations upon the Coleoptera, 

 Orthoptera, Hpnenoptei-a, Neuroptera, Hemiptera and Lepidoptera, 

 and 1 1 beautiful woodcuts of new or interesting species. 



In addition to this Appendix, the whole of chapter 7 of vol. ii. is 

 occupied with Capt. Grey's owm observations on natural history, and 

 is illustrated by several figures. 



Wiegmanns Archiv fiir Naturgeschichte* . Parts II. — V. for 1841. 

 Berlin, 1841-42. 



In our former notice of this excellent journal (vol. viii. p. 47) we 

 promised to bring its contents regularly under review ; from our long 

 silence it may have seemed that we had neglected it ; this has how- 

 ever been occasioned by the delay and irregularity in the pubUcation 

 of the work, owing to the long illness and lamented decease of its 

 late editor. Within the last few weeks three parts have been issued, 

 two of them for last year, and the first part for the present ; probably 

 by this time Part VI., completing the volume for 1841, as well as 

 Parts II. and III. for 1842, will have been published, though they 

 have not yet reached us. We are now able, on the authority of our 

 friend Prof. Erichson, to assure the subscribers to the work in this 

 country, that it will henceforward make its appearance regularly. 

 The contents of the four parts before us are as follows : — 



On the genera and species of Cojnatulce, by J. Midler, p. 139 — 148. 

 This paper was read before the Royal Academy of Sciences of Berlin 

 on May 13, 1841. The author refers to a paper previously commu- 

 nicated, in which he had divided the non-petiolated Crinoidea into 

 three families ; — Articulata with the genera Comatula, Lam., and Co- 

 muster, Agass. ; Costata with shaly ribbed calyx and pinnulse opposite, 

 difi'ering from the pinnulse of all other Crinoidea, gen. Saccocoma, 

 Agass. ; and Tessellata, gen. Marsupites ; and he then proceeds to the 

 description of his new genus Actinometra founded on the Comatula 

 Solaris, Mus. Vienn., one of the most gigantic forms of recent Coma- 

 tulce ; it has no trace of grooves proceeding to the centre of the disc, 

 the ventral side of which is occupied by a tube. The arms are fur- 

 nished with grooves, which terminate however equidistant, in a cir- 

 cular groove encircling the margin of the disc. In all the rest it re- 

 sembles the Coinatulee. Its specific name is imperialis. Size 2 feet. 

 Of true ComatulcB the author admits only 24 recent species, among 

 which are 12 with 10 arms. 



Genus Alecto, Leach, Comatula, Lam. 

 * Species with 10 arms, or simjjle division of the rays. 



Alecto carinatu. Leach (Comatula carinata. Lam., Griffith, An. 

 "* Coiiduclcd bv Prof. W. F. Erichson. 



